Despite the mob mentality (certain fanboys talking themselves in to hating a film) I enjoyed X-Men Origins Wolverine and parts of X3. Both were a step down from X2 but there's really no need to redeem anything. General audiences have a high regard for the X-Men films to date. Whinny fanboys may be a different story but honestly, they are doing themselves no real favors because most people are tuning them out regularly now anyway.
Regardless, I'm getting an X2 vibe with First Class and that's nothing but a good thing. I'm sure they'll still be complaints however good it turns out as a film because differentiating between a movie universe and a literary universe is simply to big of a leap for some people to make.
well my issue is this. X3 has the vibe of the animated series, the comic, and the first two films all rolled into one. and i feel like it brings the story to a strong close. And they managed to get Beast in the mix. i liked the plot too.
Orgins well. i feel bad for jackman and gavin hood. whoever's fault it is that this film got screwed over. i mean the video game cinematics show tha the overal structure of the story was fine. but the style of the direction was aweful. its a pain to watch it. i mean when i now look at x3 i see things that could have been better, but i feel that x3 completes the trilogy. it was a great ending. heroes die, villians fall. the cure plot. it was really good.
as for brett ratner. well he is right. he should be proud of his film. infact i wish they had invited him back for wolverine. he would've done a bette job. i mean damn. i wonder if the real story of why that film was as bad as it was will come out one day.
as for first class its a shame that we didn't get this type of film the first time.
i mean really. this is how the series should have began. just instead of Havok we should have cyclops. instead of angel salvadore we should have jean grey, collosous, ice man and angel, shadow cat, . but same story. and a wolverine cameo.
this is the line up we should have gotten.
but oh well. it will never happen. But i guess what we are getting is ok too.
its an original take on the story
recently i had the opportunity to view the x films dubbed in german. and i saw the film as a non-comic fan. And the x films (minus orgins) are very good sci fi action movies about people born is super powers who get discriminated against.
its good. but lets keep it real. because fox didn't believe in the first x movie. they didn't give Bryan Singer the time & $$$ to do a more accurate line up of characters. so they changed things around.
and each film the screw with the continuity. and now Magneto is the hero of the story and wolverine (minus orgins) is also the center of the x story.
so they are taking the x men comic and turning it into something else other than what it was originally intended to be. sure the films have elements of the comic in it. but its a huge departure.
but First Class looks good. i looks like something we haven't seen before. a powerful drama and a great action sci fi film. michael fassbender as the younger magneto looks like a strong male lead.
in the comics and the animated series we saw a guy wearing a purple costume who emits purple shock waves and gives long speeches but now magneto is the angry young hero trying to do the right thing and survive.
its interesting. next to wolverine's claws. magnetism is the coolest mutant power ever. i wish i could bend metal
When you throw in advertising costs, it didn't make a profit domestic. It also barely beat X1's numbers. That is sad. When you adjust for inflation, it lost to X1.
